As we mentioned earlier, this weekend is the Netroots Nation gathering in New Orleans, and Sen. Kamala Harris was there, almost certainly laying the groundwork for a 2020 run.

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Politico noted that Harris took offense at the use of the term “identity politics,” saying that “its purpose is to minimize and marginalize issues that impact all of us. It is used to try and shut us up.”

The last thing we want is for Harris to shut up, and we hope she takes away from Netroots the idea that she needs to move even further left if she wants a chance to climb the ladder from senator to president. That said, we’ll keep using the term, OK?

Sen. Kamala Harris accused critics of “identity politics” of weaponizing the term to diminish issues of race, gender and sexual orientation https://t.co/4sYzXXY45b

We won’t be silent about race. We won’t be silent about sexual orientation. We won’t be silent about immigrants rights. These are the very issues that define our identity as Americans.https://t.co/KBRJ5aGYlr

If you see everything through the narrow, divisive lens of identity politics and think these are "the very issues that define" us as Americans, then you have no understanding of or appreciation for the American experiment, American exceptionalism, or Americans ourselves.

Where you see race, I see Americans. Where you see sexual orientation, I see Americans. Where you see immigration, I see legal Americans. As a naturalized citizen, I see you as someone pandering for votes at the expense of all legal American citizens.

America is the freest, fairest country on the planet. Try finding our equality of opportunity anywhere else in the world. 20% of the WORLD'S immigrants live here! Identity politics as practiced by most today are toxic. They prioritize disconnection over connection & understanding

Actually I don't care about anyone's race, their sexual orientation and support LEGAL immigrants' rights. How about unemployment, crime in inner cities, wasteful government spending etc.? Those are the issues one would think you should focus on.

Our platform as the Democratic Party is IDENTITY POLITICS FOR ALL!!! The only way to make a functional society is for everyone to separate themselves by their various immutable characteristics! https://t.co/ZVqj8djMh2

Poor Kamala, clinging to her desperate hopes of being the 2020 nominee. She’ll take any of the spotlight she can get, but she constantly says these ridiculous things. @realDonaldTrump would crush her in 2020.